Locking device for coin-actuated vending-machines.



R. T. HOSKING.

LOCKING DEVICE FOR COIN ACTUATED VENDING MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 26. 1915.

Patented Dec. 7', 1915.

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RICHARD I. I-IOSKING, OF SAGINAW', MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR T0 AMERICAN BANKING MACHINE CORPORATION, OF SAGINAW, MICHIGAN, A CORPORATION 013 MICHIGAN.

LOCKING DEVICE FOR COIN-ACTUATED VENDING-MACHINES:

Application filed. April 26, 1915.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD T. HosKING, a citizen of the United States, residing at Saginaw, in the county of Saginaw and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Looking Devices for Coin-Actuated Vending- Machines; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to vending machines and pertains more particularly to machines adapted to receive and stack coins and to deliver a ticket or receipt at each insertion of a coin into the machine.

The improvement relates more particularly to means applied to a machine of the character described, whereby the insertion of additional coins is prevented as soon as the coin-stacking receptacle is filled, and also means whereby the insertion of a coin is prevented when the supply of tickets or receipts has become exhausted.

With these and certain other objects in view which will appear later in the specification, my improvement consists in the devices described and claimed and the equivalents thereof.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents a vertical section through a machine embodying my improvement. Fig. 2 is a rear view with the case removed. Fig. 3 is a perspective View of the device by which the coin-inserting slide is locked, either when the coin receptacle is filled, or when the supply of receipts has become exhausted. Fig. 4: is a perspective detail of the plate over which the tickets travelto be delivered from the machine.

As is clearly shown in the drawings, the device consists in a suitable case 1 containing a coin-receiving tube 2 adapted to receive coins at its lower end and to stack them. The coins are successively forced into the lower end of the tube by means of the coinreceiving slide 3 slidingly mounted upon a guide plate 1, along which the coins are pushed until they enter the lower end of the coin tube 2. The slide 3 is provided with a recess 5 of proper shape to receive a coin. Simultaneously with the insertion of the coin in the tube 2, a ticket is delivered from a strip of tickets 6, which is progressively Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 7, 1915.

Serial No. 23,867.

unwound from a roll 7 in the base of the machine.

The specific means by which the coin is delivered from the recess 5 and inserted in the base of the coin tube 2 and the specific devices by which the strip of tickets 6 is progresslvely fed forward do not form apart of my present invention, and any suitable means may be employed to accomplish the feeding-in of the coins and the feeding-out of the tickets, it being only essential to my present invention that the coin-receiving slide 3 shall operate by a back-and-forth movement and that the strip of tickets 6 shall be fed forward at each operation of the slide 3. To lock the slide 3 when the tube 2 has been filled with coins, and to also lock the slide and render it inoperative when the strip of tickets 6 has become exhausted is the purpose of my present invention, and the mechanism by which I accomplish these results will now be described. The upper end of tube 2 is formed with a slot 8, into which projects the horizontally bent end of a vertical rod 9, in such a manner that when the stack of coins 10 reaches the top of the tube the rod 9 will have been lifted a short distance, the rod being held in alinement by the upper and lower guides 11 and 12. The lower end of the rod 9 projects horizontally, as at 13, and upon its free end rests loosely a latch 14, which is pivoted at one end, as 15, to any stationary part of the frame. When the rod 9 is lifted by the coins, its lower end 13 raises latch 14: and the end of the latch lies in the path of the coin-receiving slide 3 and prevents its forward movement. To raise the latch 14- and lock the coin-receiving slide 3 when the supply of tickets has become exhausted, I employ a plate 16, over which the tickets 6 travel as they are fed from the machine. The plate 16 is provided with an opening 17 and beside the opening and adapted to normally rest against the tickets is a spring-pressed roller 18. This roller normally rolls upon the face of the strip of tickets, but when the last ticket has been withdrawn the roller drops into the opening 17. The roller is preferably mounted on an L-shaped arm, of which the lower member is designated 19 and the upper member 20, the arms being pivotally mounted upon the frame. The arm 19 and its roller is normally pressed toward the strip of tickets by a spring 21, which also tends to raise the upper arm 20 and the latch 14 to lock the slide 3, but can only do so when the roller 18 has dropped into the opening 17, the latter being no longer covered by a ticket. Thus, the rod 9 and the roller 18 are adapted to actuate the latch 14 to lock the slide 3 and prevent the insertion of additional coins both when the coin tube is filled and also when the supply of tickets is exhausted.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. The combination of a coin-receiving 'tube, a slide adapted to supply coins succesvending device and means adapted to actuate said latch upon the removal of the tickets from said device.

2. The combinationrof a coin-receiving tube, a slide adaptedto supply coins successively to the bottom of said tube, a longitudinally movable rod, a projecting member carried by said rod and entering the coin tube near its upper end, a pivoted latch adapted to engage said coin-receiving slide, said rod adapted to raise said latch when the rod is raised by the accumulated coins in the tube, a ticket vending device, a plate having an opening, a spring-pressed roller adapted to normally engage the tickets upon said plate and to enter said opening when the tickets are removed, an arm connecting said roller, and said latch, whereby to raise said latch when said roller enters the opening, for the purposes setforth.

In testimony whereof, I ailix my signature.

RICHARD T. HOSKING.

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